linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drm/nouveau: Fix null pointer dereference

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Message-ID: <405b102b49dbc09840afdd90695e90bf53b1bbd0.camel@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2025 13:10:04 -0400
From: Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com>
To: Chenyuan Yang <chenyuan0y@...il.com>, dakr@...nel.org,
 airlied@...il.com, 	simona@...ll.ch, lumag@...nel.org, tzimmermann@...e.de,
 dianders@...omium.org, 	harry.wentland@....com,
 u.kleine-koenig@...libre.com, airlied@...hat.com, 	bskeggs@...hat.com
Cc: dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, nouveau@...ts.freedesktop.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/nouveau: Fix null pointer dereference

On Sat, 2025-04-12 at 12:53 -0500, Chenyuan Yang wrote:
> @@ -236,9 +237,11 @@ static int ch7006_encoder_get_modes(struct drm_encoder *encoder,
>  		    ~mode->valid_norms & 1<<priv->norm)
>  			continue;
>  
> -		drm_mode_probed_add(connector,
> -				drm_mode_duplicate(encoder->dev, &mode->mode));
> +		drm_mode = drm_mode_duplicate(encoder->dev, &mode->mode);
> +		if (!drm_mode)
> +			continue;

if drm_mode_duplicate() fails, it's almost certainly the result of a memory
allocation failure. So we shouldn't use continue here and instead should just
return -ENOMEM on failure to stop the probing process.

>  
> +		drm_mode_probed_add(connector, drm_mode);
>  		n++;
>  	}
>  

-- 
Cheers,
 Lyude Paul (she/her)
 Software Engineer at Red Hat

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